MEPS WANT TO RETAIN FLAX PRODUCTION-LINKED EU SUBSIDIES
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's agriculture committee yesterday (Wed Oct 8) voted to water down the European Commission's common agricultural policy 'health check' reforms designed to slash subsidies, by proposing the retention of production-linked flax handouts. A key tenet of Brussels' reforms is that subsidies be awarded without reference to production of a particular fibre or food crop, to rein in over-production. But amendments tabled by the committee called "for the link between support and production to be kept...for small producers ...
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